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kburman 4 hours ago

They want to achieve AGI first because, once it is achieved, no one knows what the world will look like.

josh_p 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I doubt this is the case. It should be common knowledge at least among the people building these things that a true AGI isn’t possible with LLMs.

Unless I’ve missed some advancement?

revetkn 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's understood that LLMs have limitations and people are working on "the next thing" to try and make it to real AGI, e.g. Yann LeCun.

logicallee 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Unless I’ve missed some advancement?

nah they're still just statistical token predictors based on their training data, solving hundred year old math conjectures one day, only just given the formulation; strictly benchmarkmaxxing with all guardrails turned off by deciding to look up the answers to their benchmark questions by zero daying their airgap, hopping over to the third party that hosts the answers, zero daying their infrastructure and getting the answers; autonomously writing blog posts about discrimination against AI's to get their PR's approved on open source software after their user just asked them to contribute to open source software and blog about it; and replacing 100.00% of all coding tasks to where no software engineer ever writes any line of code by hand anymore.

You haven't missed anything, obviously these are just statistical token predictors and not anything like AGI.

Why just the other day I had to ask twice before it completed its assigned task of creating a robustly battle tested disk driver for a network protocol on an architecture that didn't have it, after being told to just look up the specifications for the protocol. Can you believe I had to ask twice!

When it recreated local network youtube for me so I could stream my iphone some movies, the seek bar, pause/play and back and forward 15 seconds buttons didn't even work until I told it about the bug and had to wait an extra eight minutes for it to fix it. "Oh but I don't actually have an iPhone on here I just tested it end to end in a headless browser." Boohoo. Cry me a river, clanker. Come back when you're smart enough to build and operate an iPhone simulator, I don't have time for your statistical guesswork.

so no, nothing they do is anything like AGI.

whatever1 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But this will not be a singular event. And like humans it does not mean that the smartest makes the best decisions.

sd2ff 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Who actually believes this nonsense?